OK, ladies, admit it. We’ve all been there: dumped, bitter, lonely and willing to post the dumper’s photo on a poster marked "LOST DOG" with a list of his attributes and perhaps his, er, shortcomings for all the world to see.

Oh, that last one was just me?

Any-hoo, we must admit there’s a reason the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” originated in a 1697 poem. We’ve been bitter and angry for nearly 400 years.

Most of us have the sense not to act on our baser instincts when someone “done us wrong.” Instead, we do something to cause him severe mental distress, like unfriending him on Facebook. Or we live vicariously through the violent car-trashing lyrics of Carrie Underwood’s song: “Before He Cheats.”

That gives us even more reason to cheer the sistahs brave enough to take a stand, like the women featured in this week’s column.

I can’t help but be proud of a letter writer who decided rather than throw her dirty dog’s belongings –clothes, TV, CDs – from the balcony, she would hide them and give him clues to find them, a la scavenger hunt. The brilliance of her scheme is that the clues tell the cheatin’ slime ball (not that I’m judging) to look for his items in places that were meaningful to them as a couple.

The author of the letter-gone-viral is unknown but she’s definitely got sass: “Your clothes are where we first met,” she writes beside a little red heart.

“Your video games are where we first kissed!”

“Your TV is where we ‘went all the way.’”

So at least we know he was able to find the TV.

As for the other stuff … it’s anyone’s guess. The unidentified scum sucker (like I said, not judging) did not come forward asking for help finding his stuff, likely because he’s terrified that if his identity becomes public he will wake up with Super Glue on certain private parts.

Not that I would ever condone such a thing.

Then there’s Elle Zober, who came up with the clever idea to sell the home she shared with the sleezebag husband who dumped her for a much younger model. She erected a For Sale sign that reads: “Husband left us for a 22-year-old. House for sale by scorned, slightly bitter, newly single owner.”

Not only did the house sell in 23 days, Zober got a book deal from the incident.

That’s probably the origin of that famous quote, “Becoming a famous author who can write tell-alls describing how your husband screwed you over is the best revenge,” or something like that.

The book is called “The Scorned Wife: Slightly Bitter, Never Broken, A Memoir of Love, Betrayal and Laughter.”

I would have chosen a shorter title, something like: “Bedtime Tales for My Ex’s 22-Year-Old,” but that’s beside the point.

In this day of social media, the moral of the story – for men and women – is to think before you cheat.

You never know when your dirty laundry will wind up on the lawn … and in the Twittersphere.

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